What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Avionics Software Engineer position at Merlin Labs?
About Merlin :
Merlin is a venture backed aerospace startup building a non-human pilot to enable both reduced crew and uncrewed flight. Backed by some of the world's leading investors, Merlin is scaling alongside our customers to begin leveraging autonomy today to solve some of aviation's biggest challenges.
About You :
You are an experienced avionics software engineer looking for an opportunity to share your expertise with a fast-growing team by providing technical direction and mentorship. In return, you seek an innovative startup that values its employees and invests in their professional development. As a senior engineer your primary focus is spearheading software design and development, resolving critical design decisions and demonstrating the highest levels of competence in safety-critical software engineering practices for the team. Technically, you bring proven expertise in C and C , having used one or both languages to develop flight software for multiple vehicles and / or other mission-critical systems.
The Role :
- Contribute to the design and development of the autonomous flight software, contributing to both lower-level embedded software and higher-level autonomy function areas.
- Oversee design and development of the software architecture for our safety critical systems.
- Provide leadership by example - define and implement process, write and test code, generate documentation, and ensure our product ships and performs to the highest quality.
- Take part in maintaining the configuration and quality of the software by driving development to the established standards and procedures.
- Communicate and collaborate cross-functionally to improve software by providing recommendations to update system requirements, architecture, or hardware to resolve issues.
- Collaborate across Merlin to develop novel, certifiable systems to solve the toughest problems in aviation and autonomy.
- Provide mentorship to grow a strong and collaborative avionics software team.
Qualifications :
Nice To Have :
Merlin Labs offers an innovative, entrepreneurial, and team-focused startup environment. We also offer a top-notch benefits package (health, dental, life, unlimited vacation, and 401k with match) and work / life integration. Being part of the Merlin team allows you to become part of a small team that supports professional development while working together to achieve our mission.
Merlin Labs is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status or disability
status. All job offers are contingent upon the candidate passing background, and reference checks.
At this time, we are unable to provide visa sponsorship or consider candidates who require visa transfers. Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for visa sponsorship now or in the future.
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